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Share List Posted May 8, 2018 Seeking a Qualified Policy Director About the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania: The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania is a statewide coalition working to provide leadership and a common voice for policies, practices, and resources to ensure that all Pennsylvanians, especially those with low incomes, have access to safe, decent,…

Share List 2018 PHARE Funding Supports Pennsylvania Affordable Housing Projects Last Thursday Governor Tom Wolf announced the 2017-18 projects that received PHARE funding. A total of $26.6 million was awarded to 137 housing and community development initiatives in 52 counties. “The projects that received PHARE-RTT funding will help the receiving organizations meet needs within their…

Share List Published: December 14, 2017 Thanks to all who attended our 13th annual Homes Within Reach Conference! We had over 830 attendees and over 165 sponsors, which makes it the most successful conference yet. This year’s theme was “Shining Our Light on Housing Solutions”, where we envisioned a future together, working in partnership for…

Share List November 15, 2017 The House Urban Affairs Committee held a land bank hearing November 14 to discuss the progress of land banks in Pennsylvania. The five year anniversary of Act 153, which made it possible for land banks to be created in Pennsylvania, was October 24, 2017. The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, along…

Share List This year, the Housing Alliance of PA is asking you to consider us on #GivingTuesday, a day which inspires people to take collective action to improve their communities, give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they believe in, and help create a better world. The donations raised from this…

Share List By: Phyllis Chamberlain Published: October 24, 2017 Today we celebrate the five year anniversary of Act 153—the monumental bill which allowed for the creation of land banks in the Commonwealth. Also known as the Land Bank Act, this bill gives local governments a flexible tool to help them return vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties to productive use. A land bank…

Share List By: Phyllis Chamberlain Published: October 11, 2017 Senator David Argall (R-Schuylkill/Berks), Chairman of the Pennsylvania Blight Task Force and a great champion of state level policies and programs to tackle blight, issued a challenge to communities across the Commonwealth in a recent Letter to the Editor published in the Easton Express-Times: “If your…

Share List By: Phyllis Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Housing Alliance of PA Published: August 3, 2017 Pennsylvania receives $1.2 Billion* annually in federal funding, which allows you to do the good work that you do every day to provide new affordable housing opportunities to people in need. The Housing Alliance has been…

Share List RFP Date of Issue: June 20, 2017 RFP Due Date: July 20, 2017 OVERVIEW The US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to…

Share List Funding cuts to affordable housing proposed for upcoming state budget Some funding cuts to affordable housing have been proposed for the upcoming state budget. As News 8’s Matt Barcaro explains, some fear that could hurt the homeless the most.

Share List PA Homepage A small community in Lackawanna County is taking a new approach to fighting blight. Mayfield is planning to join the Lackawanna County Land Bank program to help cut down on its number of rundown property issues. The …more

Share List For the first time since its launch more than two years ago, the city of Erie’s land bank has the money it needs to combat blight. A first-of-its-kind cooperative agreement approved by Erie County government’s land bank in …more

Share List Shelterforce recently published an article detailing how land banks across the country fund their activities. While many former industrial cities and rural communities have struggled with systemic vacancy and abandonment for decades, the 2008 housing crisis wrecked neighborhoods …more

Share List After experiencing success in the county’s biggest city, the Lackawanna County Land Bank looks to continue that success in one of the county’s smaller communities. Officials on Monday braved the rain at a press conference held at a …more

Share List Housing code enforcement—the local government process of administering and enforcing housing codes designed to ensure safe and habitable housing conditions—is one of the primary strategies for connecting and improving our housing and our health. But housing code enforcement …more

Share List The long-vacant Larimer School will be redeveloped as affordable housing as part of a larger redevelopment in East Liberty and Larimer by the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh. Housing authority board members voted unanimously to approve …more

Share List Greensburg has spent the past few years knocking down dilapidated houses. Now, the city is trying to get new ones built in their place. “We tore down single-family homes, and we’re trying to put single-family homes back in,” …more

Share List Fighting blight has been the goal of many communities across Pennsylvania. Now… A new report is looking at ways communities can turn blighted properties into opportunities. A new report released called “Revitalizing Pennsylvania” looks at ways cities across …more

Share List For many years, the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania has been committed to supporting community efforts to turn around blighted properties. The result of our work is a range of new powers and tools, made possible through state legislation, …more

Share List Gov. Tom Wolf was in New Castle last week and saw first hand the blight issue that plagues the city. In a conference call Monday morning, the governor, who is up for re-election Nov. 6 as he faces challenger Scott …more